The universality of the stellar initial mass function

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11 June 1997

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Vol. 288 (1) , 145-152
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/288.1.145

Abstract

We propose that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is universal in the sense that its functional form arises as a consequence of the statistics of random supersonic flows.

Keywords

UNIVERSALITY
IMF
FLOWS
SUPERSONIC
INITIAL MASS FUNCTION
STELLAR INITIAL MASS

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